Cross-slatted trunk



O. A. TAYLOR; Gross-Slat ted Trunk.

- No. 225,497. Patented Mar. 16, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. TAYLOR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

'CROSS-SLATTED TRUNK.--

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,497, dated March 16, 1880.

Application filed October 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. TAYLOR, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oross-Slatted Trunks, of which the following, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective representation of a cross-slatted trunk embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a like representation of one of the metal clamps detached.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention relates to that class of trunks in which there are slats extending longitudinally along the outside of the trunk, and also transversely or across the trunk.

The object of my invention is to strengthen the joints at the junction of the longitudinal and transverse slats by means of clamps or plates constructed and arranged substantially as hereinafter set forth.

A represents the body of the trunk. B B are the transverse slats, and G O the longitudinal slats. D D are the metal clamps. The clamps D D are flat, and are arranged, as shown, to cover the joints between the parts B B and G G, and to there connect and protect the said parts.

a a are downturned tongues or flanges on the lateral edges of the clamps D D, and arranged about midway between the ends thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The said flanges are thus made to lap or partly lap the sides or lateral edges of the transverse slats B B,

and to abut or lie against the inner edges of the parts 0 0 when the said clamps are ap plied, as shown, to cover the joint between the said slats. A portion of the edges of the clamps B B are thus protected from blows, and the fastenings by means of which the clamps are applied are aided by the flanges a a, which are in a protected position, lying as they do in the corners formed by the junction of the slats B B and O C.

I am aware thatin Letters Patent No. 203,860, issued to me the 21st day of May, 1878, for improvements in trunks, I have shown clamps consisting of angular or bent metallic plates adapted to lap the edges or corners of the trunk and provided with prongs made to enter the trunk in aid of fastenings for securing the said clamps in their places, and I do not, therefore, here claim such; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a cross-slatted trunk, of the transverse slats B B, the longitudinal slats O O, and the, flat metallic clamps D D, arranged to lap the joints of the slats B and O, and having thereon the downt-urned tongues or flanges a a, arranged to liein the corners formed by the junction of the said slats, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES A. TAYLOR.

Witnesses F. F. WARNER, CHAS. H. TALLMADGE. 

